Justin Robertson

US-Asia Economic Relations (eBook, PDF)

A political economy of crisis and the rise of new business actors

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Critically evaluates the oft-cited claim that US firms and the US government attempt to open emerging markets in economic distress and acquire valuable industrial and financial assets. Focusing particularly on Korea and Thailand, this book examines the degree of market opening and the roles US actors played in this process.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134030637
• Artikelnr.: 43070101

Autorenporträt

Justin Robertson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and International Studies at the City University of Hong Kong and an Associate of both the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation and the Southeast Asia Research Centre.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Opportunism, Resistance and Divergent U.S. Economic
Interests in Post-Financial Crisis Asia PART I: Towards a Different
Approach 2. The Foreign-Domestic Divide in Studying the Aftermath of
Economic Crises and Outlining an Alternative Approach 3. The Divergent U.S.
Interests Approach: A Different Theoretical Lens PART II: U.S. Economic
Behaviour in Asia After the Financial Crisis 4. An Opportunity for Foreign
Investors: Crisis-Induced Market Opening in Korea and Thailand 5.
Significant U.S. Interests and Influence in the Market Liberalization
Process 6. Limited American and Aggressive Non-American Foreign Investment
in Post-Crisis Korea and Thailand PART III: Explaining Divergent U.S.
Economic Interests 7. New Forms of International Business in East Asia 8.
Misleading Theoretical Models of Economic Crises 9. Conclusion: Reviewing
Findings and Looking Outside Asia